Tag: color theory

Yesterpost I showed you a black & white photo of a paint doodle and asked for guesses what the 'real' colors are.
I kept you waiting longer than I intended, only cos sometimes the days gallop by and all of a sudden it's much later. So here we are, and here it is!

Color is an integral part to all types of creativity, it influences our moods and emotions, it's linked with memories, and it's everywhere! As we tune our eyes in to notice it, life becomes brighter and more vibrant.

What's really beautiful, is within the group of creatives brought together by TWELVTY, there's such a diversity of talent and such a fabulous range of expression. When you take a subject like color which can be applied to most every medium, it translates such variety of techniques and media and manifests a constant source of inspiration

Some lifetimes ago, a sixteen year old version of me failed to get the place in art school that she'd pinned all her early hopes to.
Dismissed by the grown ups who'd repeatedly explained: 'being an artist isn't realistic' led to years floating adrift from my calling.
(They were wrong. And this isn't what I do, I've come to realise, it's what I am)

(But more on that in a moment... first let me set the scene...) I was telling you about how TWELVTY has begun to take on a life of its own. It's just a few weeks into its year long life and it's not going the way I imagined... Instead of being the set of 12 individual colored … Continue reading Happy Birthday!

Y’now I've been immersed in color for the last few months. Not my usual multi-colored chaos (although there’s no escaping that) – but a very specific niche of color – as I explore and examine the color wheel. It’s a project I played with a few years ago keeps returning to in one way or another. … Continue reading A life of its own…